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Movie Profiles & Premiums Newsletter Supplement
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Cliff Aliperti
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Sep 15, 2005 21:46 PDT
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Movie Profiles & Premiums Supplement. September 15, 2005
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Bet you didn’t think you’d hear from me so soon, but oh well, I forgot
to mention a couple of things in that last issue and in the meantime
came up with a few more things to mention. Plus, Carly came through
with another Crossword Puzzle for us, so I had to get that out to
you...it's at the bottom of this newsletter.
Lots of changes have been and are being implemented. On second thought
I've put off returning to the work world, deciding that at the age of 33
time is running out on my fantasy-land pursuits...in other words, if I'm
meant to give my own business a better go then the time is now. Once I
cash in my chips on this chances are that the opportunity won't present
itself again until I'm of retirement age.
So, here's the deal...I am still discontinuing the "Movie Collectibles
for Sale" portion of things-and-other-stuff.com, at least as the main
attraction that is. I'll offer some new movie items from time to time,
but I can't afford to keep all of my eggs in that basket.
PS: I am still running bulk lots of vintage movie collectibles in
clearance auctions
y.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsascsZ1QQsassZthingsQ2dandQ2dotherQ2dstuff),
all starting at $9.95 with no reserve. Many still photos to come!
I had mentioned last time that I had bought a domain name
(paperpubs.com) and was experimenting with eBay's ProStores....both of
those ideas have been quashed. ProStores has potential, but for the
seller like me, dealing with a great number of unique items, the
shipping set-up is a nightmare. I cancelled my membership.
From there I researched the net for yet more info about web hosting
which provides the tools for an online store. I stumbled upon something
called Site Build It! or SBI!
(http://buildit.sitesell.com/otherstuff.html). The site had a heavy
sales pitch, but seemed to have a lot of people that believed in it. I
downloaded a free 250-word e-book called the Site Build It! Action Guide
(http://action-guide.sitesell.com/otherstuff.html) and read it late one
night. Again, a heavy sales pitch, but I liked what I was seeing in
regards to the meat of their offering. Next I searched the net again
and looked for some independent information regarding SBI!. I found it,
thought it looked okay, took the plunge and signed up for the annual
$300 fee. There's no turning back now...the new site is a reality:
http://www.collecting-old-magazines.com
By the way, that $300 annually isn't just for the web hosting, there are
a ton of tools to help optimize your site for the search engines, and I
must say that even with only 4 or 5 pages of the new site built I
already feel like I've gotten my money's worth from the research
materials provided.
As a minor tribute to the things-and-other-stuff.com site I've begun
Collecting Old Magazines.com with information about the movie magazines:
http://www.collecting-old-magazines.com/movie-magazines.html
Looking to keep myself busy for as many of the 24 hours in a day that I
can manage to stay awake, I've also set up another site, which will
admittedly take a back-seat to the magazine site for now, but I do have
bigger plans for in the future:
http://www.the-collectors-site.com
That one is going to be a bit wider in scope. I'm hoping to build it
into a hub for not only collectors of movie collectibles and vintage
magazines, but all things collectible. But as for now I'm going to be
spending more time at Collecting Old Magazines.com learning the SBI!
methods and hopefully incorporating them into all three sites.
The next change regards eBay: I'm keeping things-and-other-stuff as my
user ID on eBay, however I have already changed the name of my eBay
store to Collecting Old Magazines. If you had my store bookmarked you
will probably need to update your bookmark. Here's the new address:
http://stores.ebay.com/Collecting-Old-Magazines
(Note the new logo!).
If you only collect movie memorabilia and are bored by all of this, I do
apologize--however movie magazines are going to be a large part of
Collecting Old Magazines.com and there will be many peripheral items
such as LIFE, LOOK, TIME and other magazines with movie star covers...so
hopefully I'll still keep you as a customer :)
Another note on updating your bookmarks...and this does effect you movie
aficionados--in order to improve both navigation and hopefully search
engine rankings on the things-and-other-stuff.com site I have changed
many (most?) of my URL's. I'm still in the process of updating most of
the Photo ID Pages, but all of the profiles and most other web addresses
have changed. So again, if you've bookmarked any pages at
things-and-other-stuff.com you will more than likely need to update them
(sorry about that!). I think in the end the changes will help this be a
better site though.
I also figured out how to customize my 404 and other Error Pages, so you
won't get that plain and scary screen if you reach one of the old URL's.
I'm pretty proud of myself for that, didn't think I'd be able to figure
it out!
Since the last issue I have added some movies to Cliff's DVD List, be
sure to check that out if you liked it the first time around.
http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/cliffs-dvd-list.htm
I also still plan to add many more collectibles slide shows to the site.
I have about 4 years worth of images stored away at Marketworks, I just
to retrieve them, find the time, and make the pages. (And then I can
cancel my Marketworks account and save $70/month!) Look for more Slide
Shows in the future.
http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/movies/slide-shows.htm
I forgot to mention a couple of sites that really impressed me in the
last issue and it really bugged me because I even wrote out notes to
myself on Post-It's and stuck them on my monitor screen. Anyway, I can
mention them now.
If you clicked over to The Collectors Site.com you may have already seen
my plug for them, but http://www.whatacollection.com/ deserves another
mention. This site is so cool in that it perfectly combines collecting
with the internet. What A Collection.com is a community where you can
sign-up and show your collection off to the world. You get a profile
page, some image space, and plenty of room to tell everyone what you
collect. If anyone from this newsletter tries it out, let me know and
I'll definitely give your page a link from things-and-other-stuff.com.
I haven't looked at the details on joining, but I did see a banner on
their home page advertising "Free Collectors Websites" so my guess is
that it's free! I exchanged e-mails (and links) with Ron at What A
Collection.com and it was very friendly correspondence. I definitely
recommend that you check it out.
Another site that I thought was pretty cool was the Wayback Machine
which I bumped into when I was checking my numbers at Alexa.com. This
site archives other sites, including things-and-other-stuff.com. I was
pretty surprised at some of my early and ugly designs (I'm self-taught,
so they're pretty bad!). If you're interested have a look, the link
brings you right to my site's history beginning in September 2002.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:/www.things-and-other-stuff.com/
Last and certainly not least, the day after I sent the last issue of The
Movie Profiles and Premiums Newsletter, Carly Svamvour did indeed get in
touch with me and send a Crossword for us! Since I'm not sure when my
next mailing will be I'm going to present here both the puzzle and
solution to "Into the Fall":
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Into the Fall, A Crossword Puzzle
By Carly Svamvour
http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/movies/crossword-puzzles/091505-puzzle.htm
Click the link above to print out the puzzle and complete at your
leisure. Don't peek at the solution page below until you finish it up!
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SOLUTION to "Into the Fall" Crossword Puzzle:
http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/movies/crossword-puzzles/091505-solution.htm
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Carly Svamvour is a writer who makes her home in the west end of
Toronto, Canada. She has published her poems, short prose pieces and
puzzles in many places throughout Canada and the U. S. A. She is
currently working on her photo-journals with an eye to success at being
a travel writer. See more of Carly at Wild City Times - click here
(http://wildcity.proboards14.com/index.cgi?action=logout) for the
magazine and online writing workshop.
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End Credits:
And I think that's all I had to say...of course if I anything else comes
to me I'll stick the Post-It on my monitor and get it out to you after a
reasonable amount of time has passed. Seriously, I hope you enjoyed the
update and look forward to the changes that I'm making. 'Til next time,
take care!
As always feel free to e-mail any thoughts or ideas to us at
thi-@things-and-other-stuff.com, we're always willing to listen.
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